Tuesday night, Iron County volleyball players wore pink jerseys to raise breast cancer awareness
IRON RIVER -- Tuesday night’s volleyball match between West Iron County and Forest Park took on a different tone.
With the help of Northstar Health System, the schools wore pink uniforms to help raise awareness for breast cancer.
"It's a really great idea to have both Forest Park and West Iron schools in our county to come together on an event like this,” said Northstar Marketing Director Lindsay Harmon-Denske. “We want to make sure the county is served as a whole.
The event is part of a nationwide movement to continue raising awareness for breast cancer. All the money collected from student ticket sales Tuesday night will also be donated to breast cancer research.
After hearing about coloring the match pink all the players jumped on board.
"At practice, Ms. Grubbs had told us that we were allowed to do it, and we were all super excited, and we wanted to get the community really involved," said West Iron senior volleyball player Hannah Holma.
"As young women, I think it's really important that we join together, even though we're rival schools, to fight for a cause like this,” added West Iron volleyball player Megan Angeli.
Despite the rivalry, the final score didn't matter as the entire community were the real winners.
"It means a lot because when you have young girls that play for you who are going to grow into women, and this is a cause that we're fighting for women,” said West Iron Varsity Volleyball Coach Brenda Grubbs. “This is everything you want for young girls, and our community has the best medical care.”
Forest Park will also be hosting a Color the U.P. Pink volleyball match October 19 in honor of the 25th anniversary of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
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